I have learned a thing or two about broken hearts in my 23 years of life. I have learned that you can get your heart broken by guys you never even dated. I learned that you can be a hundred per cent over it and that it still will only take a certain smell, a song, a memory to take you back. I learned that you can love someone, even though it tears your apart or maybe exactly because of it. Womens´ magazines taught me that a broken heart will only last half of the time the relationship did and Brigdet Jones taught me that Ben&Jerry can help you get over almost any man.

I have learned all these things and a couple more and still there is one type of broken heart, that I know almost nothing about even at 23: Getting you heart broken by a friend.

There is an extensive book of rules on how to end a romantic relationship (never via text and only in certain emergencies via phone) and even more methods on how to get better soon. But we very rarely talk about the fact that we can also break up with or friends, or that they may break up with us.

Friendships usually do not end in dramatic scenes or a sentimental moment. Most of the times we just call less, text less until the friendship slowly fades out. Or there is this one stupid argument neither of us wants to solve, the end of the greatest friendship with a passive-aggressive message on a smartphone screen.

For romantic relationships the end may just be as important as the beginning. We meet our exes again and again, trying to get it right, to talk it through once again, to try again, to land in bed with each other again. But with friendships? We don´t even plan for an end. Friendships are supposed to last forever, even though reality has shown us numerous times that it can be just as difficult to find something to talk about with your former best friend after ten years, as it is to find your high school sweetheart attractive at 25. We don´t confess that some of the habits of our friends drive us just as crazy as the fact that he is always late.

The fact that just like any other relationships, friendships can end is swept under the carpet, is hidden. Unlike lovesickness there is not even a word for the feeling after a friendship ends. We all know how to handle missing an ex (watching "The Notebook" while crying hysterically or getting over him by getting under someone else), but there are no good tips on how to handle loosing a good friend. How do you cope when after years of friendship you don´t even know your ex besties hair colour? What do you do when you miss your former friend, but you know she isn´t good for you? How do you say "Let´s stay friends" after a friendship ends.